Rebecca Ingram , Ph.D. Department Chair, Professor of Spanish

Rebecca Ingram, PhD, is Chair of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures and Professor of Spanish. A specialist in Feminist Food Studies as they relate to Spain, she is author of Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain (2022), winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award for Spain in the Category Best Women of the World. She has also co-edited three major collections of scholarship, paving the way for critical examinations of Iberian food cultures as a practice of cultural studies. 

Before joining Texas Tech in 2026, she was Professor of Spanish and Affiliated Faculty in Food Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of San Diego.  

Education

PhD, Duke University

Areas of Research

• Iberian Studies
• Food Studies
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Transnational Feminisms
• Global Latinidades

Recent Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

“From the Mediterranean Diet to Gastronationalism: Cultural Studies and Spanish Foodways.” Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings. Eds. L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma. Routledge, 2025.

“Food Studies y el género: los estudios culturales y la ‘potencia feminista.’” Food studies en español. Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación. Eds. Yanet Acosta y Rebecca Ingram. Editorial Fragua, 2024.

“Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y Josep Rondissoni: las mujeres simbólicas en la creación de un paisaje gastronómico,” MVM: Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, vol. 7, núm. 1 (2023), 105–131. 

“La investigación de la comunicación gastronómica en España/A research approach to gastronomic communication in Spain,” with Yanet Acosta. RAE-IC, Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, vol. 10, núm. Especial (2023), 58-82.

Books

Food studies en español. Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación, with Yanet Acosta. Editorial Fragua, 2024.

Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways, with Eugenia Afinoguénova and Lara Anderson. Hispanic Issues, University of Minnesota. Vanderbilt University Press, 2024. 

Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 

Edited Journal Issue

“Transhispanic Food Cultural Studies.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies XCVII.6 (2020) with Lara Anderson.